Tag: disaster response

The California-Pacific Conference Disaster Response Task Force had reported in the waning months of 2019 that their Happy Little Tool Trailer, subject of literary fame, suffered the indignity of being rudely awakened in the middle of the night and kidnapped from the University Church Irvine

Northern California has been overwhelmed by the loss from multiple devastating fires over the past three years. Our California-Pacific volunteers have been responding to a call for teams from the California-Nevada Conference. Last November, representatives from Camarillo, Glendale, Anaheim and Nampa (Idaho) UMC’s took a

The UM Federal Credit Union Board and Ted Ramirez, Business Development Officer, presented a check of $5,000 for Disaster Relief to be used by the Cal-Pac Disaster Response Task Force at the Task Force’s meeting at Ontario First United Methodist Church on Wednesday, January 15,

by Lyn Knowles In early spring, the UMCOR West depot in Salt Lake City sent out a request for churches to send mission teams to work at the depot. First UMC of Riverside sent 7 volunteers to help. The trip took place during the week

In response to the damage done to Trona Community Church as a result of the Ridgecrest earthquake, a Cal-Pac Early Response Team (ERT) of 15 volunteers from 9 different churches across the Conference came to Trona to work for 3 days in late July. This

Many are aware that late last year the Island of Saipan, which is our furthest location of a United Methodist Church in our California-Pacific Conference, suffered a direct hit from Typhoon Yutu with 200 mph sustained winds for as long as eight hours. Massive destruction

The Cal-Pac Disaster Response Task Force will present one of these new vests to the Trustees/Disaster Team of each church who makes progress toward disaster planning in their annual Charge Conference report. These bright yellow vests, depicting Clergy, will help quickly identify to the survivors

United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (UMVIM) Western Jurisdiction sent the first Early Response Team (ERT) to Victoria, Texas from September 18 through September 30, 2017. Tom Mattick lead the thirteen person team. It included ten (Kristy Albanece, Nancy Cushman, Annie Gildner, Trish Hamrick, Julie Littler,

On June 6, 2017, the Zion UMC Sanctuary was gutted by fire. The cause is still under investigation by several agencies. The 100-year-old congregation is one of a few in the Desert Southwest Conference (DSW). The conference requested to a cadre of United Methodist Volunteers

While returning from its first Disaster Response project on May 25, 2014, the new Disaster Response Trailer donated by The United Methodist Men of Indio United Methodist Church (Indio, CA) was involved in a single vehicle accident. Occupants of the vehicle towing the trailer were

The California-Pacific Conference is a regional body of The United Methodist Church, made up of some 50,000 members in almost 350 local churches throughout Southern California, parts of Central California, Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, Guam and Saipan.

The Conference is led by Resident Bishop Grant J. Hagiya.

The Office of the Resident Bishop, known as the Episcopal Office, as well as the offices of Conference Staff is located at the California-Pacific Conference center.

California-Pacific Conference Center

110 S. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101

626.568.7300

Mon thru Fri: 8:30AM - 4:30PM

Sat & Sun: Closed

Below is a list of ministries, agencies, boards, committees, and commissions of the California-Pacific Conference.